Package-tie.



'0. E. HOOVER. PAGKAGE TIE. APPLIGATION IILBD OCT. 7, 1907.

Patented Nov. 10, 1 908.

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To all whom it may concern:

CHARLES E. HOOVER, OFSTRAdBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKAGE-TIE No. 903,722. Specification or Application filed October 7,

Letters Patent. Patented I\l'o.v. .1O 1908.

1907. Serial No. 396,289.

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Hooves, a resident of Strasburg, in thecounty of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Package-Ties; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,su'clnas will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in package ti'es,-the objectof-the invention being to provide a simple and eflicient'deviceconstructed of a single piece of wire and adapted to receive andsecurely hold the respective ends of a cord without necessity ofwrapping the latter around any part of the device.

A further object is to so construct the device that it will properlyretain its position upon a package.

\Vith these objects in View the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of con-- struction and combinations of parts as hereinafter.set forth and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 'is a view illustrating myimprovements when applied to a package. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail.view of the device and Fig. 3 is a view showing the device provided witha'hand hold. r

1 represents a piece of spring wire. the ends of which are first bentupon themselves and'the double strands of wire thus formed are bentlaterally to form arms 2,- 2,the arm 2at one end of the deviceprojecting in the opposite direction from the arm 2 at the other endthereof. These arms serve to retain the device fiat u on a package.

At each end of the evice, the free end of the wire forming one of thedouble strands ing disposed at respective sides of the body wire 1) willclamp the cord tightly against said, body wire and thus securely holdthe same against possibility of slipping.

If desired, the body-portion of the device may be increased-somewhatinlength, and

From this construction andarrangebent to form a hand-hold 73 as showh inIlaving fully described my invention what I claim as new and desiretdsecure by Letters-Patent, is,

A device of prising a single piece of spring wire having each of its endportions bent laterally form-- ing arms projecting in oppositedirections at respectireends of the device, the free ends of the wirebeing bent to form loopsdisposed over the intermediate body portion andthrough which said body portion passes the character described, comthemembers of each loop cooperating with the body portion between themt0--form a cord clamp.

In testimony whereof I have signed this. specification 1n the presenceof two SllbSCl'lly ing Witnesses.

CHART ES E. HOOVER.

\Vitnesses S. G. NO TINGIIA R. S- FERGUSON.

